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Name: Janna_na
Birthday: 12/30/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: Harry Potter. Coffee. Sociolinguistics (not!). Slovak. Dutch. My cat. Food (yum!).
Expertise: Harry Potter. Coffee. Ethnolinguistic micronationalism. My cat. Food (yum!).
Occupation: Executive
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
8/23/2005
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| Why I hate Doctrine of God:"As God is a being absolutely necessary, so the decree is necessary intrinsically on the part of the principle (a parte principii). Notwithstanding this, it is free extrinsically and terminatively. Nor does this apply any real distinction in God because it is a mere relation (schesis) and respect outside himself which modifies but does not compound."
Almost over, almost over, almost over...
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| | What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia Your
accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from
Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey,
Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off
place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may
have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a
clue what accent it was they heard. | | The Midland | | | The South | | | The Inland North | | | The Northeast | | | Boston | | | The West | | | North Central | |
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| Yay! They're making a sequel to my favorite zombie movie!!! It is called 28 Months Later... Yay.
In other news, the book up top is super ultra good and everyone should read it. One question though- can someone explain the words marikle, dubko, and ciganata. I think the third is plural for Roma children? like dievcata?
Also, do any Slovaks recognize the word gadzo? I know what it means, but I don't know if it's understood in Slovak. And, were houses in the West ever made out of válki? Because I think it's the most fun word ever.
My pretend spring break is about to start, only it's not so pretend anymore because my clients have all cancelled their classes at the last minute, and it's a reading week for my Penn class, so it's a REAL spring break, with no classes, and my manager doesn't know I have off, so he hasn't given me more hours at the café!!! It's kinda like a massive unexpected snow week.
However, I still have to work on three massive papers: one is on the Filadelfia gitano (Roma) church movement in Spain, another is on Roma in Slovakia, and the last one is for my Penn class, on observing teachers' directive language with student proficiency as a variable. Hmm... perhaps I can come observe Megan!
Finally, if you haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth (El labyrinto del fauno) you really should. It rox. And it's set during the Spanish Civil War, my favorite modern historical period ever (my favorite medieval period is anything connected to Matamoros iconography, especially pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela; my favorite reformation period is probably Late Tudor, especially anything with Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox, that big Reformed bully, although I am also a huge fan of Dutch history at that time- yes, I am a dork).
Perhaps you can tell that I am in a good mood?
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| Into each life some rain must fall...Tonight it rained on my way home from work (teaching-work,
not barista-ing work). I stopped off at the 12th Street BrewHaHa and hung
out with the people that work there. Someday, I will work there, if I ever get
the guts to quit at Greenville.
When I walked home after closing, it was beautiful. I love
walking in cities after there’s been a shower. Everything is fresh and clean
and wonderful.
I love Philadelphia.
It is just the most amazing place and I love it. I love my house, I love my
commute to school, I love my walk to work (12 blocks), and I love my bus lines
(17 and 40, baby). I love Rittenhouse
Square. I love Washington Square. I love everything in between.
I even have a guarded affection for the South Street
Bridge, death trap though
it is. I feel nostalgic for University
City, as if I were already an alumna and didn’t still
have to go down there once a week.  Rittenhouse Square
I love the way that they park in South Philly, in the median
strip and double, triple, sidewise parked. I love the richy shopping on Walnut Street. I
love the variety of foods in Queen
Village. I love the fancy
doormen at Barclays. I love walking through the center of City Hall and feeling
like I’m in some European palace. I love walking down the alley streets with
their little row houses and cobblestones and gas jets. I even love the outrageousness
of the Gayborhood and the sleaze of South
Street.
Typical Philadelphia architecture
I love the way that I can walk to the Ritz at the Bourse and
see Indy and foreign movies any time I want. I love the proliferation of used
books stores within walking distance of my house (five!), I love that there is
a Cosi, a Dunkin’ Donuts, a Wawa, a little café every where I want to be (I
boycott Starbucks- I think there are about 43 within walking distance of my
house- NO exaggeration). I love my neighborhood bars (Chaucer’s, Tangier, and
Ten Stone). I love it all.
Don’t you wish you lived here, too?
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| Jargonjar·gon1    /ˈdʒɑrgən, -gɒn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[jahr-guhn, -gon] –noun
1.the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon
2.unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish.
5.language that is characterized by uncommon or pretentious vocabulary and convoluted syntax and is often vague in meaning
I really, really hate jargon. I despise businesstalk. I dislike academic jargon. I loathe Christianese.
I mean, ok, so I use my own petty jargons- my barista words, some scholastic patter, a little teacher talk- but really. I accept the reality of discourse conventions and genre concerns. But when I'm in class or church and I hear certain words and phrases, I just stop thinking about the meaning being conveyed and focus on hating the words being used.
There are a lot of Christian words I dislike. I am not talking about those right now (ok, comfort zone, hard heart, traveling mercies, Christian walk, heart for x, ministry and fellowship And sheep). There are a lot of academic terms I think are useless. I am not... ok, I will. I hate the expression "unpack meaning". With the power of a thousand, thousand burning suns. I'm really tired of power, dichotomies, continua, and frameworks.
But what I really, really hate is when Christianese and academese come together. My top 5 banned words for the next 24 hours (until I have to, must hear them again in class):
5) syncretism
4) exegesis
3) eschaton
2) ontological
And the most incredibly irritating phrase I have ever heard uttered in any language (notice the inappropriate phrasal/particle construction):
1) speak to
No, the professor will not "speak to" that passage. He may talk about it, he may even examine it, but so help me, he will not speak to it. You can't speak to passages. They won't talk back, and frankly they probably don't like chastisement, either.
There are better ways to say all of these things. Use your Anglo-Saxon, please. Or even, so help us, your French. Just not the Greek. PLEASE not the Greek.
I do like seminary. Really I do. I just sometimes want to wash people's mouths out with lexis-blocking soap.
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